Art critic Clement Greenburg on Kant as the first Modernist
Greenburg was the most influential art critic of the twentieth century. In the opening paragraph of his “Modernist Painting” (1960), Greenburg made a big claim: “Because he was the first to criticize the means itself of criticism, I conceive of Kant as, the first real Modernist.” Greenburg’s earlier “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” published in Partisan Review […]
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